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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-11-5, Page 1Turkey entered the War on s e of er any. Five German Battleships defeat three British ships off Chilean Coast RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION Now is the time to renew your subscription to The Advocate Help the editor by renewing early, Help yourself by getting a live pa- per, Help the eommunity by giv- ing us all the News, WENTY-SEVENTH YEAR CLUBBING When renewing yoUr Advocate remember that we.41,,a with a the City Daily, 'Weekly, and the Monthly papers acrd periodicals, Get the benefit of these clubbing rates. Lail in and see us. EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOV EMBER a 1914, ANDERS • & CR:EECH The War Situation la the Went the great effort of :he Kaiser to reach't"Calaus has' proven a ift lure, Instead of advancing his a.".zany ,has been forced to retreat, and thH.M. combat has become more of a buither5• than a battle, the loss of the Germans being estimated in -two weeks to be at least 150,000. h7ear- er Switzerland the Allies have gain`. War Summary ed much ground. In the East Russia has •driven the The GermaTx fart in China; is being bombar"sled and declared about ,to fall. The rebellion` in South Africa has s tis`. in flight and De, Wet has opened negotiations• to surrender, practically been brak'en up as Beyers Germans 75 miles from "Warsaw with great loss. Germany is calling out her 1915 reczuits, Theapparent entrance of Turkey in the war has complicated matters considerably, Nand it is Volleyed that Italy .Greece and the Balkan States Will soon join the Allies. Martial law has been proclaimed by the British in Egypt which the. `Turks' have; 'in- daded, • On the . SeaBritain lost an old cruis er, and German same'• torpedo boats and submarines. In view of the Ger- man mine laying Britain has; declared the North Sea closed to shipping, TAMAN'S Fall A��ou��ceme�t OUR FALL CLOTHING LINES IN BOTP ORDERED CLOTHING AND READY MADES VRE MOST COMPLETE, WHILE OUR FURN- ISHINGS ARE NEW IN STYLE, & UP-TO-DATE TN EVERY LINE. Ordered Clothing R.ANGE IN PRICE FROM $18 to $28 Ready-made Clothing FROM .,$8 to $20 ur Fnishin s y IN UNDERCLOTHING, SOCKS ;THL FAMOUS ARROW SHIRTS & COLLARS HATS AND CAPS, TIES ETC. GIVE A FINE CHOICE, TAKE A LOOK THROUGH OUR STOCK, 1111 We TAMA TAILOR &' FURNISHER THURSDAY Britain has lowered the military i standard. The minimum height fo 1 melt has been reduced to five feet four inches, and the age, -limit raised to 38, In Galicia the Russians are. making progress To the south they sur rounded the 38th Division of the Hun garian Heaved, together with detach rents from the Landsturm, ,end de- stroyed them completely, capturing 2 pieces of artillery and a quantity of warmateria. 1 rlying Ge 7 e trap cruiser cr e uis Emden, lyin„ the Japanese flag and disguised by the addition of a fourth smokestack,. entelea Penang, ' a British •aossessian in the Straits Settlements, and tired torpedoes which sank the Russian cruiser Jemtchug and a French de- stroyer It is reported r p here that the Ger- mans are falling back all along" the line,; from La Besse. to the sea. A German newspaper estimates that Germany has sufficient corn for bread for the army and population until :.he next harvest, but adds that the,war, may last longer and care must be ex- ercised that none be wasted: The Ontario 'Government has de- cided to contribute 200 tons of dried apdes to Britain. Premier Botha has routed an, `army of the rebel Beyers and captured 80 men in the Transvaal. Britain note has 1,500,000 men un- der arms and about ready to go to the 'was, and France has 1,000,000 'vho_ are ready and have not. yet been un- der fire. FRIDAY A. German submarine which attack- ed the British battleship Venerable off the Belgian coast, has. been sunk. The war bill which Europe, is meet ing daily is now figured up as follows =Russia .$.14,000,,000; • Gexivany $7,225 000; France $7,000,000; England $5,- 000,000; Austria. $4,000,000; various $3- 000,000. Total ,$40,225;000. This, does not include destruction.of vessels, and h'ualdings, etc, Turkey has entered the war, on the side of German and Austria-Hungary by sending the two' _German 'bought cruiser into the Black Sea on the Rampage This will likely mean the entrance of Italy and Greece, on the other' side SATURDAY Martial law has been ,proclaimed in Egypt, which the Turks have invad- ed, The Allies have sunk two Turkish gunboats Great Britain 1i ,,,c eeiar,ed the North Sea closed to shipping, owing to dan- ger from mines as ,Germany has been scattering mines indiscriminately. Germany has apologized to the Al- lies for her fleet's action; in the Black Sea, but the Turks are divided as to whether to go to war. WEDNESDAY The . Germans, have given ip the attempt to reach, Calais bye the creast, Russia reports wins' in, threer places avid has invaded Turkey. A.13ritish submarine was sunk in Lhe r North sea ,by a mine thrown` cue. by a German cruiser being chased by British cruisers. The men were saved,. Germans claim .to •have sunk; one. British cruiser, set another one an - fire and damaged another so that it - had to a -unto shore, off the - Chilean coast an Sunday. The claim ist made that all were destroyed • 0 The Gerrnan fleet is said to have =pout out . to sea frank the Kiel ;,anal: ThesA1lie feet 1 has bambardaed the e Dardanelles,:- causing great dam- age . The closing of the North Sea is regarded as a fine stroke by Lord Fisher, the new head of the navy.• The lass of life or the British hos- pital ship Rohilila which crashed on the rocks of the Yorkshire coast near here before dawn to -day is a matter -of doubt to -night, The ves- sel however- is a total wreck. Slice ess for the Allies hasgrown out of the series of, furious conflicts o.ii the extreme left wing trying near the coast as well as in the vicinity of Ypres and, Arras 100 more Boer rebels have sur- rendered without fighting. It is reported that Lille has again been captured by the Allies,. Hungary, weary of a wary inwhich site ha. -,nothing to gain, would wel- come.,a chance to quit. It is sup aes;e 1 also that Servia .'soon may be compelle•3 to retire within her ,awn blur lers and assume a purely dicfen• sive wale in consequence of the nat- ional exhaustion resulting from the fighting of three campaigns in as many years. The British official statement says that an Indian contingent has joined the British and Japanese forces oper- ating against the Germans before Tsing Tau, China. The Russian gunboat was sunk by a Turk torpedo-boat at Odessa MONDAY Colonel Albarts has defeated the Soutb African rebels in . the; Lichten- burg district of the Transvaal, kill- ing'13 wounding 30 and, capturing 240 Turkey has .definitely thrown in her tot with Austria and. Germany; and if Partgual is counted there now. axe 11 powers at war with prospectsof threr. more—Greece, Bulgaria and Rouananira—being drawn in soon and Italy making in all 15. • The Backe feller Foundation has determined to employ its iinlnense"te- sources for the relief of noncombat ants in the "countries afflicted, by the war and stands ready to give "mil - liana of dollars, if necessary, for the purpose:' The old ciuiuser Hermes, captain. C, Re Lambe was sunk to -day by'a tor.' peda fired by a German submarine in the Straits of Dover ati she was re- turning from Dunkirk, The loss of life is small and the,, vessel:, was 'old Berlin acknowledges that the Ger- man casualty lists for the• past week. amounts to 62,000.. The total to date is about 420,000. -• • It is reported that a plot has. been discovered in United States td blow up the Welland Canal TUESDAY It it stated that the Coital British f ogeeunder General French is three handrail thousand, The. German cruiiser Karlshure cap - tau" another British steamer in the South Atlantie. • Germany has rat :d another army of 580,00.0,mainly x.915 recruits. • THF LADIES ARE PATRIOTIC. The ladies of Exeter are putting it all over the men in buytlding up the Patriotic Fund and supplying clothing far the soldiers and destitute 13e1 - glans We take off our hats' to them inother sense than that of common courtesy. • Nothing seems to give too much labor „nothing looks too hard, nothing looks too trivial for them• Theyhave been knitting, sewinga and mending—many had never learned to knit, but old and young take it up with energy and enthusiasm. They have been conducting a tea room' on Saturday afternoons, making a iew dollar's profit each week. A success- ful promenade was given some weeks ago and the latest move, Gras the holding pf a Hallowe'en Tea Friday. evening last in the Opera House when about $125 of net proceeds, was 'idd- ed to the fund. The. Tea was under the auspices of the Junior Ladies' Patriotic League, and the affair was an unqualified success in every way. The attendance was large; the 'sup- per of pork, beans, salads, doughnuts and pumpkin pie, with tea and coffee, was all that could bei desired. The hall was nicely decorated with bunt- ing flags and fixtures appropriate} to Hallowe'en. Here and there • were booths for the sale of homemade candler and pop -corn, a fish- pond, and a, gipsy fortune tellers tent. 13ut above all was, the spirit of work that the whole affair represented. ivlen seldom realize the amount of work connected with the decorating o f a hall the preparing of eatables, and the serving of same, and the cleaning up afterwards. The ladies are cer- tainly to be congratulated on their efforts Local Items Miss Dally Dickson is visiting' in New 'H ambturg and other places tans week Mr. and Mrs, G. Anderson and Mrs. Boor. autoecl to St. Marys and Lakeside on Sunday. Mrs Amos and Mrs. Hastings are the \'(ro•men's Institute delegates to the London convention held this week Wo understand a couple of Exeter boys slipped away to London to try the medical exam. for enlistment -in the second contingent an Wednesday Mrs S ,Fitton has receivedan ac- knowledgement of the recent - ship- ment:•• of wearing apparel for the Bel- gians Shipments in future will be made every two weeks. The Ailsa Craig Banner has again changed hands, Mr. J. W. lCedweli, of Alvinston, having purchased it from Croft and Wright, Mr. Zroft who has resided there for the nast four years, is leaving for Toronto, where he has a position with a;iub ber company. While assisting in loading a piano at; 2vin• S Martin & Son's store on Thursday night last Mr. Wm. Snell employee of Mr. Gea, Crawley's) ',v- ery, bad the misfortune to have the nail on the index finger of the right hand completely removed by ;betting it caught under the roller on which the piano} rested. DEATH OF JOHN SNELL,--Atter an illness of several weeks, the death took place on Wednesday morning of John, Snell Andrew street, Mr. Snell had been in failing health foo- some years, but had been confined to his bed for only one week. Born; in Ex- eter, the 'deceased resided here all his life time, and for many years bought horses, and also raced some good ones in his time, He was wide-' ly known and highly respected, In religion heryas a Methodist ;rind in politics a Conservative. Besides his wife, who was Eliza Welsh, daughter of the late Richard Welsh, he is sur- vived by twossons and : two daughters- -R aughters—R J of Graraan, Alberta, A. J. of Santa Monica, Cal., Mrs. G, H, Mc- Donald of Des Moines, Iowa, andMrs C. 1-I Smith of Windsor; three half- brothers also, survive, Wesley, Charles and David Bissett, Deceased was ag- ed 67 years, 8 months and 19 days, Awaiting the arrival 'cvf tat; sans the funeral arrangements have not yet been made HURON ENLISTING.—Capt, 3)ctit-. top and Capt., Sale of Goderich, with twelve men from, that town Nave vol- unteered for the contingent now • be- securecl, The men are Samuel Ward Ernest Wells, Harry H. Silk, William Lott ery Arthur Riley, Henry Eden Wm ,Walpole, dark Arnold, Albert Corfield Benjamin 'Smith, Wrn. Gol- by. George Arthur Bells. Capt. :31,n- clair of iVingham has also enlisted and six men, Albert Chapman, Percy r Harris, George Reid, Chas. H. 'Searle Jahn. H White, Albert Dovey. .Luck- now has three men, Hartley Gordon, Alfred Mortis, Donald Roy '\Iacdon- ald, Walton has two, Bert Dennison Richard Cunningham, Seaforth has two Jesse Daniels, Frederick Daniels Idensall one Wesley Colwell. Exeter as ye* has none, Is it possible !hat this town is not to be represented? Fifty men are needed from Huron; 26 have enlisted, Could not Exeter) get a few of her strong and healthy young men :to enlist, or should we be satisfied with lip -loyalty, thet rais- ing o,' a few dollars, or a purely peace time volunteer force ? DEATH OF MRS. BASKERVILLE —There passed away at herhame on Williamspree`> Tuesday last,Maggie pie J dso belovedwife A,n er n, b love of Mr. Samuel Baskerville, at the age of 54 years. 'Mrs, Baskerville had been a lone sufferer from rheumatism and the disease being of a very severe type the result wasthat she had be- come crippled and her joints more or less deformed, so much so that she has been unfit to even attend to her household duties. During the last two years her condition has been very severe, and the greater part of that time she has been confined to 'her ,bed, She was born in London Town- ship isi 18u0 and some years later she moved' with her parents tis the Town- ship rnf Stepheru, and about twenty- five years ago moved to Exeter, and has continuously resided here since, Mrs Baskerville was a patient suf- ferer and ;notwithstanding her great affliction, was cheerful and . jovial. Besicle.s her husband she is survived by two sons, Lorne and Cecil; also one brother and two sisters, Oscar aor'l Mrs. S. G. Tetlock of Sarnia and Mrs. L.. Meakins of St. Paul, Minn .The funeral takes place to the Exeter cemetery on Friday at 2 p.m. DEATH OF AN OLD 'RESIDENT —The pioneer residents of this lis- a-ct are passing one by' one until there are scarcely any to"tell the good old storiee i;icident to pioneer life. Thie week sees another of the tete• elan laid to rest from this labors. We refer to the degni 'e of Mr. Val- entine Mitchell, who .passed away at hi: home William street, shortly af- ter three o'clock Wednesday marking at the advanced age of 83 years, 2 months and 3.days, Mr. Mitchell was a man of remarkable,physique, robust and hardy, and scarcely knew; what a day's sickness was until his last ill- ness. For some months east he had experienced a physical breakdown, and gradually sinking. the end came; as stated above, The deceased was born in Darlington . '.p., near Port Hape, an 1 came to Huron County 'vith his parents when about 18 years pf age. One year later his father was the un fortunate victim of an accident which cost him his life, being shot while hunting near Centralia in mistake for a bear The deceased now realizing that he had to depend_ on, his own re- sources took up farm lot 25, on the 3rd concession of Usborne, and in. 1863 married Belmira Huston, To the uniot a family of six were oorn— faur daughters and two, sons'. Mr, • Mitchell has since lived in all the surrounding townships— Usborne, Hay, Tuckersmith and Ste- phen—and about ten years ago he re- tie -ed. from 'farmlife to Exeter, where he has since resided, proving himself a mast worthy citizen. Mr. Mitchell was noted for his strict ' integrity, honesty of purpose, and a man much respected for his many good qualities. In politics he was a staunch Conserv- ative and was a member of the. Triv- itt Memorial church. Besides hisag- fed partner he'is survived by Mrs. hn- Toronto, Mrs. Frank bill, Port Huron, Mrs, Dan Dew and. Mrs. Evan Dew of Usborne; John T. Mitchell of Tuckersmith and Arthur of Usborne. The funeral, which is to be private, takes place to the Exeter Cemetery to -morrow (Friday.) •,. Apples Wanted We will pay cash for Winter ter. peel ing apples delivered at the Exeter r Evaporator. •We also buybright p � t sun dried quarters. `1 EXETERV- E A."L'ORA►.TOl Exeter Bargain Store Are you prepared for cold sloppy weather? If not conte to us and get fitted out with shoes, rubbers, underware, . hosiery, suits, overcoats &c. See our 34 inch fiannellette at ilc yd. CxLOVE34 -A big range of samples in lines that cannot be procured to -day. SWEA ERS ---big variety. See our new sweaters, 79c, UMBERELLAS---79c. Our made -to measure suits and overcoats are the finest on the market. B. W. F. Beavers STEWART'S Where Reasonable Prices Prevail. New Overcoats for Men You will find a fine ,issortmen: of the Newest Styles) here, Lots of nifty coats fr'r youths as, aa, for the little fellows. See our Fur -collared .oat with curl lining. Special at $18.00. Misses & Ladies Coats If you have not eougnt your coat you should see wha,t we are showing. The styles were never better;—The Pric- es never so low—quality, considered. New Plush Coats a -riving this week Millinery New goods are arriving for this department each week; 'Whenever you come in we will have something- new to showou y Sweater Coats 'In the newest weaves and combination of colors, Coats for every member of the [amity They are not high priced You will say s'o when you see them See our Special for nen and women at'&S.00. J. A. STEWART The Symphony Quartette From the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, New York A Concert Organization of unusual merit,giving a high-class performance of great varietythat appeals to the entire entertainment•going public,' will appear in James Street Methodist Church, Exeter Tuesday Evening, November 10th Consisting of Trios, Duets, Violin Solos, Recitations, Ensemble Mtxsio, Whistling Solos Quartettes, Pianolo ties, ello Solos, Impersonations, harnber Music, Readings and Piano Solos Wherever this company appeared they have had been favorably received and have bad numerous return engagements.` Admission 25c• Children 15c. Under Auspices of the 3lpvvorth League One-half the proceeds to be donated to the Exeter ?atriotio Fund